If you want to quickly get a notification off your screen in iOS 5, all you need to do is swipe left across the notification and it’ll be pushed off screen.

Update: It turns out this works because you are briefly activating the Notification Center by slightly pulling down and letting go, this is what causes the notification to dismiss. Thanks to @davscanlon for noticing this.

This may be a simple little trick, but something I wasn’t aware of until iDownloadBlog pointed it out in a video, where the above screencap comes from. That video is embedded below just in case you’re having troubles:

This definitely works on the iPhone and iPod touch, but it’s probably less useful on an iPad.

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